Reversible corset-busk.



No. 640,030.v Patented 1an. 9, |900.

A. H. WADE.

REVERSIBLE CORSET BVUSK.

(Appxication mea Apr. 12, 1899.)

(No Model.)

fNr-TED STATES Frrc.

PATENT REVERSIBLE CORSET-BUSK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,839, dated January 9, 1900.

Application filed April 12l 1899. Serial No. 712,755. (No model.)

To tu whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALZIRA HEWITT WADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Reversible Corset-Busks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to those devices used in Womens Wearing-apparel and indifferently calle( steels, corset-stays, and busks, the same being most commonly made of spring metal and supplied with clasps which are composed of studs and hooks or other mediums for joining a pair of such busks.

The particular object of my invention is to provide a busk having one of the fastening or clasping members-the stud-movable to either side of the busk, so as to permit of its use as such in a reversible corset or Waist-- that is to say, a corset or Waist which may be Worn either side out.

In carrying out my invention I construct a busk with eXternally-screW-threaded studs, which are fitted to appropriate nuts or threaded bosses in or upon the busk and in such manner as to be capable of being rotated longitudinally in order to project from one side or the .other of said busk sufficiently to receive the other member of the clasping device, in this Way admitting of the reversal of the corset--that is to say, its being Worn either side out without bodily removing either member of the busks, all as I Will proceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a front elevation of a pair of busks for use in a corset or Waist constructed in accordance with one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the studbusk. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of a portion of the stud-busk, showing the movable stud projecting part Way on both sides. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation corresponding with Fig. 3 and showing by dotted lines the stud fully projected to one side.

The steels, stays, or busks ct and b may be of any usual or approved construction, straight or curved, andA of metal or other usual material.

The busk a is supplied With a suitable number of externally-screW-threaded and headed studs c, Which may be made adjustable longitudinally of themselves in said busk a 'by connection with the reinforces, bosses, nuts, or other receivers CZ and e, either or both, applied to or made with the said busk a and of sufficient thickness to receive and engage the screw-threads of the studs and to permit of the adjustment of the studs and to hold them in such adjusted position.

Very obviously when a garment containing my busk is in use all of the studs of the busk are projected from one side-namely, the outside of the garment-and when the garment is to be reversed and the former inside is to become the outside then all of the studs are adjusted so as to project from the other side of the busk, and this is done Without removing the buskct from its pocket in the garment.

The member b is supplied With as many of any usual or approved hooks or eyes f as there are studs to complete the fastening de vice, and I have herein shown the ordinary form of such device having a slot of substantially keyhole shape.

I do not limit my invention to the kind or form of the double-headed stud or the manner of forming the same herein set forth.

What I claim is l. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described reversible busk, for reversible corsets and the like, comprising a steel, stay or busk provided With stud members adjustable in the direction of their length in the said steel, stay or busk, and thereby adapted to be projected from either side of said steel, stay or'busk so as to permit a reversible use thereof Without removal from the garment to which they are applied, sube stantially as described.

2. A busk, having stud members construct ed with heads at each end and screw-threaded externally, applied to said busk and capable of longitudinal adjustment therein to project either of the heads outwardly, thereby to IOO adapt the busi; for use in a reversible corset or similar garment, substantially as `described.

3. A husk, having an externally-screwthreaded and headed stud, and a, screwthreeded receiver for said stud in which the said stud may be adjusted in the direction of its length and projected more or less from either side of the husk, thereby te permit the wearing of the garment to which the said husk ro is attached with either side of such garment outward, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th dey of April, A. D. 1899.

ALZIRA HEWITT WADE. Witnesses:

C. E. COOK, GEORGE C. RIPLEY. 

